KIRAN LEONARD ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM OUT SEPTEMBER – LISTEN TO LEAD SINGLE ‘LIVING WITH YOUR AILMENTS’ NOW

Kiran Leonard has recently announced details of his new album Derevaun Seraun, set to be released Friday 15th September 2017 on Moshi Moshi. It is the follow-up to 2016’s acclaimed ‘Grapefruit LP’, his first for the label.

Lead single ‘Living With Your Ailments’ (listen below) is inspired by Albert Camus’ 1942 philosophy work ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’. “I read it for the first time as an unhappy, nervous 17-year-old and I found it deeply moving and comforting,” says Leonard. “It is an essay about taking the cards we are dealt – mortality, nothingness, uncertainty – and doing our best with them, in humour and in optimism and in open-mindedness.“

Speaking of his upcoming album Kiran Leonard said: “Derevaun Seraun is a piece I wrote a couple years back in five movements for voice, piano, and string trio. Each movement is written about a different piece of literature, exploring the value I see in each work and the impression it has made on me, and there is nothing more to it than that. The pleasure of books – of good verse and stories and ideas – is a very simple thing, and I felt that some lofty, unifying theme for the entire piece would be a betrayal of that belief. I think that when a work resonates with you, it is an instinctive response to something. You can be taught to understand a challenging book, but not to feel affection for it; I think a lot of conversation around art, especially around literature, sometimes forgets this. In my experience, the art I like the most, irrespective of its ‘difficulty’, is the art I can advocate most directly and plainly, and about which I can say: “I read this piece and now I do not read or think in the same way that I did before”, or: “This is a story that I could not explain to someone; I do not understand it word-for-word, yet I feel like innately I understand the whole, and that the whole spoke to me”. This is a piece about five books that I like and why I like them.”

Derevaun Seraun tracklisting: I. Could She Still Draw Back? II. Living With your Ailments III. A Particle of Flesh Refuses the Consummation of Death IV. The Mute Wide-Open Eye of All Things V. The Cure for Pneumothorax